Fascinating flower pots

Noah’s Flood explains Hopewell Rocks, Canada

The Bay of Fundy in eastern Canada is famous for its enormous tides. At Hopewell Rocks, toward the end of the bay, the tide may rise as high as 14 metres (46 feet), but it does not stay high very long. The water is always moving, either up or down, and the level can change by a metre (3 feet) in 30 minutes.1

Time was the key. Although the interpretive boards spoke of millions of years, I reminded myself that that time was not in the rocks I saw.

The tides are eroding the cliffs and leaving stacks that are narrow at their base and look like ‘flower pots’ standing on the shore. These have fascinating names like Baby Elephant, Mother-in-law, and Lover’s Arch. Visitors to Hopewell Rocks, sometimes thousands a day, descend the Main Staircase at low tide and stroll across the ocean floor—until the water begins to rise again.

When we apply the new interpretation to the interpretive boards it changes the way we see the world.

When I visited Hopewell Rocks some years ago, the large, modern, interpretive centre was equipped with colourful display boards and models. On-site interpreters gave talks about the local wildlife, sea life, and plant life, and told the geological story about how the rocks formed.2 Their story was one spanning eras of unimaginable time hundreds of millions of years ago.

When I descended the steps, I saw that the flower pots were made of gravel that had been cemented into stone. Some of the chunks of rock were angular but most were rounded. This conglomerate rock, as it is called, spoke of large quantities of fast flowing water. Rushing floodwaters would not have taken very much time to deposit that gravel. As I walked across the exposed ocean floor and examined the flower-pot stacks and cliffs, I realised I was looking at evidence from the global Flood of Noah’s time.

The cliffs are composed of conglomerate made of large pieces of rock, needing lots of fast-moving water to wash them into place.

Low tide among the flower pots. The strata were tilted by earth movements.

Time was the key. Although the interpretive boards spoke of millions of years, I reminded myself that that time was not in the rocks I saw.3 And, after suitably adjusting the times that were quoted,4 the sequence of geological events shown on the interpretive board fitted well with what was expected from Noah’s Flood. The Flood explained it well, giving new insights into features like the origin of the buried vegetation that turned to coal.5 When we apply the new interpretation to the interpretive boards it changes the way we see the world.

Warm oceans cause increased evaporation of water vapour which precipitated on the continents resulting in a build up of snow and ice. See: Oard, M., An Ice Age Caused by the Genesis Flood, ICR Monograph, San Diego, 1990; see also creation.com/ice. Return to text.

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George J.,Canada, 18 August 2014

I live about a two hour drive from the "The Rocks". When we were young they fascinated us. I was not until attending university in Sackville that I realized that SSE of "The Rocks" is Rockport (which has cast and petrified fossils as well as coal deposits) and further, in the same direction, are the fossil cliffs of Joggins (with giant trees and coal mines and a variety of other fossils.) The upper end of the Bay of Fundy certainty contains a lot of geological evidence which testifies to the truth of the Flood.

David C.,United Kingdom, 20 August 2014

Genesis 8-14 simply reads:14 By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry. This does not refer to glacial movement

Tas Walker responds

Yes, Genesis 8:14 describes the water coming off the land. However, there is much geological evidence that much ice cover built up on the continents after this, and there are good creation models to explain this.